[GRASS5] purpose of "format" field in cellhd?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 05:16:49PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:01:44PM -0400, Justin Hickey wrote:
> [...]
> > Anyway, the reason for the mail, I have a friend who is trying to import
> > Grass 5.0 raster files into other software, and he needs to know what -1
> > means for the "format" field in the cell header file. I can't seem to
> > remember and the programmer's manual does not indicate what a value of -1
> > means. The value usually indicates how many bytes are used for storing the
> > data but the minimum value seems to be 0 (which means 1 byte). Any idea of
> > what -1 indicates?
> 
> as things are not fully set up here, I would like to ask you for an
> answer which I can forward to Justin... I just can't remember the answer.

Floating point.  Means look in fcell/<raster>/ for the real deal.  Some
"other software" may not handle this scenario (I know MicroImages'
TNTMips doesn't -- though it does do 4.x style CELL).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>